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My fiancée and I were going out to dinner after work. We were at a red light in a part of town that we never normally drive though, its not the best of neighborhoods for sure but still no excuse for someone to do this. Next thing I know we hear a loud slam, not knowing what it was I told my fiancée to put her head down. I jumped out of the car as did the guy behind me. I looked around quickly and then went over to the passenger side of my car and hear the guy behind me say they had a potato cannon and that they had shot it through the wire fence of the housing project that was directly across the street. I never ended up seeing the group of kids the guy told me he saw. I thought about filing a police report but knew that the chances of it going anywhere were slim to none, and I would have probably just goten hassled about my car. Even if I found the group of kids what could I have done, I'm a 28 year man! I went straight to the car wash and washed it off, no damage was done! To be honest I was more bummed out that someone would take the time and go through the trouble of stuffing dog feces in a potato cannon, sit there with a can of hairspray on a 35 degree night and shoot it at a car...REALLY!

Something like this happened to me last week, but it's with raw eggs which sucks because I didn't noticed it till the next morning when I woke up so it was hard to clean since it sticked already on my mirrors, door, and on my wheels. It started to stink the next morning when I noticed that It was showered with eggs!

^ they're classified as a firearm because they use explosive repellant and a projectile. "sawed off shotgun" isnt a category.

OP, I would have been highly upset. That sucks.

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In Pennsylvania a "sawed off shot gun" is considered a POW or Prohibited Offensive Weapon. It is a weapon that serves no other purpose but to inflict serious bodily injury. I would say you should report what happened. It is not funny. I am sure your state will have similar laws. I wish you well.

^ they're classified as a firearm because they use explosive repellant and a projectile. "sawed off shotgun" isnt a category.

Potato cannons don't have to be hair spray fed to be classified as a firearm. Air powered are also considered firearms. And coming from someone who has built LOTS of potato cannons, be glad that was most likely a hair spray model. Air powered cannons have A LOT more kick to them, it might have sent that through your window. I quit building air powered ones though, they scared me too much. 100 psi of compressed air has a stupid amount of potential energy, and PVC doesn't show up on x-rays.

Potato cannons don't have to be hair spray fed to be classified as a firearm. Air powered are also considered firearms. And coming from someone who has built LOTS of potato cannons, be glad that was most likely a hair spray model. Air powered cannons have A LOT more kick to them, it might have sent that through your window. I quit building air powered ones though, they scared me too much. 100 psi of compressed air has a stupid amount of potential energy, and PVC doesn't show up on x-rays.

I wrapped my reservoir in like 10 layers of duct tape in case of shrapnel

Potato cannons don't have to be hair spray fed to be classified as a firearm. Air powered are also considered firearms. And coming from someone who has built LOTS of potato cannons, be glad that was most likely a hair spray model. Air powered cannons have A LOT more kick to them, it might have sent that through your window. I quit building air powered ones though, they scared me too much. 100 psi of compressed air has a stupid amount of potential energy, and PVC doesn't show up on x-rays.

I actually really prefer building compressed air ones, because it's impossible to control chamber pressures accurately with hair spray or propane.

So, the idiot who did this collects dog ****, has a potato cannon that is covered in dog ****, and essentially plays with dog ****... I feel like that reality, that matter-of-fact-ness about one's life, is equally if not more degrading than being the victim here.

Must have been a pretty crappy potato cannon (har har)! We used to make these back in highschool and had it been one of ours they used, your window wouldn't have been there and they would have been in jail. We were told by the police they are classified as a "sawn off shotgun" in MA, but they were impressed with our designs so they watched us shoot them before telling us to go home

^ Correct and incorrect. Sawn off shotgun is not a type of weapon but just red neck jargon for legal classification--fed law dictates at minimum 18" barrel length measured from the chamber iirc. I shoot on the reg and I'm not sure why you would want anything less, but along those lines our spud thrower was in fact "legal" despite what we were told

When we were building these we had a range of responses about their legality, none in favor of course

At least it was soft dog poop and not something hard that would do a lot of damage.

Potato cannons, if built right, can be very powerful.

In high school I build an air-compressed potato cannon (or, as I affectionately called it, 'The Produce Accelerator') with a pneumatically-actuated sprinkler valve. At 120 psi I shot an enormous nail with duct tape fins through two phone books, an SAT study book, and a box of sand about 20 inches long. It pierced all of those and kept flying into the woods behind my house to never be seen again.

It could shoot a golf ball upwards of half a mile with only a 5 foot barrel. One time I attached a 10 foot 1/2" barrel to it and I made a AA battery break the sound barrier.

With a 5' barrel that was 3" in diameter I would shoot soda cans (full!) nearly vertically. They would become a tiny black speck in the sky and land about 20-30 seconds later with a giant explosion (shook them up beforehand ).